Development of a US trust measure to assess and monitor parental confidence in the vaccine system.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop a Vaccine Confidence Index (VCI) that is capable of detecting variations in parental confidence towards childhood immunizations centered on trust and concern issues that impact vaccine confidence.

Methods

We used a web-based national poll of 893 parents of children <7 years in 2016 to assess the measures created for the Emory VCI (EVCI). EVCI measures were developed using constructs related to vaccine confidence identified by the U.S. National Vaccine Advisory Committee (i.e., "Information Environment", "Trust", "Healthcare Provider", "Attitudes and Beliefs", and "Social Norms"). Reliability for EVCI was assessed using Cronbach's alpha. Using the variables related to each of the constructs, we calculated an overall EVCI score that was then assessed again

SUBMITTER: Frew PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6573024 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature